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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "But my patients are different!": risk adjustment in 2012 and beyond. 
  • A 9-Year retrospective review of antibiotic cycling in a surgical intensive care unit. 
  • A Bundle-Based Approach to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates. 
  • A Multicenter Pragmatic Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Community Hospital Intensive Care Units. 
  • A Phase II Randomized, Double-blind, Multicenter Study to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Iclaprim Versus Vancomycin for the Treatment of Nosocomial Pneumonia Suspected or Confirmed to be Due to Gram-positive Pathogens. 
  • A blinded, randomized, multicenter study of an intravenous Staphylococcus aureus immune globulin. 
  • A case-control study of nosocomial ampicillin-resistant enterococcal infection and colonization at a university hospital. 
  • A community approach to mortality prediction in sepsis via gene expression analysis. 
  • A comparison between National Healthcare Safety Network laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional surveillance for Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • A comparison of HIV-positive patients with and without infective endocarditis: an echocardiographic study--the Emory Endocarditis Group experience. 
  • A comparison of environmental contamination by patients infected or colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or vancomycin-resistant enterococci: a multicenter study. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates. 
  • A genome-wide association study of variants associated with acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a healthcare setting. 
  • A multicenter, phased, cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units*. 
  • A multifaceted intervention to reduce rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a resource-limited setting. 
  • A prospective study of transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) between environmental sites and hospitalized patients-the TransFER study. 
  • A pseudo-outbreak of Aureobasidium species lower respiratory tract infections caused by reuse of single-use stopcocks during bronchoscopy. 
  • A survey of infectious disease clinical practices among pediatric blood and marrow transplant programs in the United States. 
  • Ability of an antibiogram to predict Pseudomonas aeruginosa susceptibility to targeted antimicrobials based on hospital day of isolation. 
  • Achromobacter xylosoxidans bacteremia. 
  • Acquisition of Clostridium difficile from the hospital environment. 
  • Adherence to self-quarantine recommendations during an outbreak of norovirus infection. 
  • Advanced Modeling to Predict Pneumonia in Combat Trauma Patients. 
  • Aggressive versus conservative initiation of antimicrobial treatment in critically ill surgical patients with suspected intensive-care-unit-acquired infection: a quasi-experimental, before and after observational cohort study. 
  • Alternative lipid emulsions as a new standard of care for total parenteral nutrition: finally available in the United States? 
  • An Education-Based Text Messaging Program to Improve Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Related to Nosocomial Infections in Intensive Care Settings. 
  • An Enhanced Strategy for Daily Disinfection in Acute Care Hospital Rooms: A Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • An integrative model using flow cytometry identifies nosocomial infection after trauma. 
  • An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. 
  • Analysis of Phase 3 telavancin nosocomial pneumonia data excluding patients with severe renal impairment and acute renal failure. 
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention-Leveraging the Synergy: A Position Paper Update. 
  • Antimicrobial activity of a continuously active disinfectant against healthcare pathogens. 
  • Antimicrobial activity of copper surfaces against carbapenemase-producing contemporary Gram-negative clinical isolates. 
  • Antimicrobial stewardship programs in community hospitals: the evidence base and case studies. 
  • Antimicrobial stewardship: a matter of process or outcome? 
  • Application of a microcomputer-based system in the analysis of infection data at the emergency units of a large hospital. 
  • Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Assessment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease surveillance definitions, North Carolina, 2005. 
  • Assessment of Self-Contamination During Removal of Personal Protective Equipment for Ebola Patient Care. 
  • Association between surgical indications, operative risk, and clinical outcome in infective endocarditis: a prospective study from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis. 
  • Association of an Active Surveillance and Decolonization Program on Incidence of Clinical Cultures Growing Staphylococcus aureus in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Bacterial colonization of intravenous catheter materials in vitro and in vivo. 
  • Battling the Chimaera: How Much Disclosure of Rare Risks Is Necessary? 
  • Blood culture contamination with Enterococci and skin organisms: implications for surveillance definitions of primary bloodstream infections. 
  • Bloodstream infections in community hospitals in the 21st century: a multicenter cohort study. 
  • Broad spectrum antibacterial and antifungal polymeric paint materials: synthesis, structure-activity relationship, and membrane-active mode of action. 
  • Bronchiolitis. 
  • Burden and risk factors for Pseudomonas aeruginosa community-acquired pneumonia: a multinational point prevalence study of hospitalised patients. 
  • Burden of healthcare-associated infections among hospitalized children within community hospitals participating in an infection control network. 
  • Burnout in the neonatal intensive care unit and its relation to healthcare-associated infections. 
  • Candida auris. 
  • Candida bloodstream infection in neonates. 
  • Candida infective endocarditis. 
  • Candida infective endocarditis: an observational cohort study with a focus on therapy. 
  • Cardio-oncology care in the era of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: An International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS) statement. 
  • Casablanca redux: we are shocked that public reporting of rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections are inaccurate. 
  • Catheter dwell time and CLABSIs in neonates with PICCs: a multicenter cohort study. 
  • Catheter-related bloodstream infections in children. 
  • Central line "attention" is their best prevention. 
  • Central line-associated bloodstream infections in adult hematology patients with febrile neutropenia: an evaluation of surveillance definitions using differential time to blood culture positivity. 
  • Central line-associated infections as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Hospital-acquired condition versus standard infection control surveillance: why hospital compare seems conflicted. 
  • Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Reduces the Incidence of Bloodstream Infections in Adults Undergoing Inpatient Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. 
  • Clinical Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization Related to Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in Community Hospitals. 
  • Clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis involving implantable cardiac devices. 
  • Clinical outcomes and costs due to Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients receiving long-term hemodialysis. 
  • Clinical risk factors and inflammatory biomarkers of post-traumatic acute kidney injury in combat patients. 
  • Cluster of oseltamivir-resistant 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infections on a hospital ward among immunocompromised patients--North Carolina, 2009. 
  • Co-infection or co-colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a network of community hospitals. 
  • Coagulase-negative staphylococcal prosthetic valve endocarditis--a contemporary update based on the International Collaboration on Endocarditis: prospective cohort study. 
  • Communication gaps for solid organ transplant-transmitted infections among infectious disease physicians: an Emerging Infections Network survey. 
  • Community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: experience of a veteran affairs medical center in southeastern USA. 
  • Comparative efficacy of hand hygiene agents in the reduction of bacteria and viruses. 
  • Comparison of costs, length of stay, and mortality associated with Candida glabrata and Candida albicans bloodstream infections. 
  • Comparison of metrics used to track central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) across a regional network. 
  • Comparison of non-intensive care unit (ICU) versus ICU rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in community hospitals. 
  • Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals. 
  • Complex surgical site infections and the devilish details of risk adjustment: important implications for public reporting. 
  • Conclusion of Avery et al--validation of findings but concern about rationale. 
  • Congenital Tuberculosis: A New Concern in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Contemporary clinical profile and outcome of prosthetic valve endocarditis. 
  • Continuous intravenous cimetidine decreases stress-related upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage without promoting pneumonia. 
  • Continuous room decontamination technologies. 
  • Contrasting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in Veterans Affairs and community nursing homes. 
  • Control of simultaneous outbreaks of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae and extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection in an intensive care unit using interventions promoted in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012 carbapenemase-resistant Enterobacteriaceae Toolkit. 
  • Controlled comparison of BacT/ALERT FAN aerobic medium and BATEC fungal blood culture medium for detection of fungemia. 
  • Controlling antimicrobial resistance in the hospital. 
  • Correlation of intracellular organisms with quantitative endotracheal aspirate. 
  • Costs associated with health care-associated infections in cardiac surgery. 
  • Critical care aspects of lung transplantation. 
  • Critical care perspective on immunotherapy in lung transplantation. 
  • Cryptococcal ventricular-peritoneal shunt infection: clinical and epidemiological evaluation of two closely associated cases. 
  • Current definitions of central line-associated bloodstream infection: is the emperor wearing clothes? 
  • Defining sepsis on the wards: results of a multi-centre point-prevalence study comparing two sepsis definitions. 
  • Delays in appropriate antibiotic therapy for gram-negative bloodstream infections: a multicenter, community hospital study. 
  • Denominator Matters in Estimating Antimicrobial Use: A Comparison of Days Present and Patient Days. 
  • Determinants of Variation in Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. 
  • Diagnostic Approach to Health Care- and Device-Associated Central Nervous System Infections. 
  • Differences in time-to-testing and time-to-isolation between community-onset and hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile cases at a tertiary care VA medical center. 
  • Differential effects of levofloxacin and ciprofloxacin on the risk for isolation of quinolone-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. 
  • Duration of incubation of fungal cultures. 
  • Dysphagia screening and hospital-acquired pneumonia in patients with acute ischemic stroke: findings from Get with the Guidelines--Stroke. 
  • Early recognition and response to increases in surgical site infections using optimized statistical process control charts-the Early 2RIS Trial: a multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial with stepped wedge design. 
  • Effect of nosocomial bloodstream infections on mortality, length of stay, and hospital costs in older adults. 
  • Effect of vancomycin serum trough levels on outcomes in patients with nosocomial pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus: a retrospective, post hoc, subgroup analysis of the Phase 3 ATTAIN studies. 
  • Effective cohorting and "superisolation" in a single intensive care unit in response to an outbreak of diverse multi-drug-resistant organisms. 
  • Effectiveness of targeted enhanced terminal room disinfection on hospital-wide acquisition and infection with multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile: a secondary analysis of a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial with crossover design (BETR Disinfection). 
  • Efficacy of anti-pseudomonal antibiotics: need to reconsider the empirical use of cefepime. 
  • Emergence of coagulase-negative staphylococci as a cause of native valve endocarditis. 
  • Emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance among Bacteroides species. 
  • Emergence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and therapy of colonized personnel during a hospital-wide outbreak. 
  • Empirical antimicrobial therapy for bloodstream infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: no better than a coin toss. 
  • Enhanced disinfection leads to reduction of microbial contamination and a decrease in patient colonization and infection. 
  • Enhanced terminal room disinfection and acquisition and infection caused by multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile (the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room Disinfection study): a cluster-randomised, multicentre, crossover study. 
  • Epidemiologic Trends in Clostridioides difficile Infections in a Regional Community Hospital Network. 
  • Epidemiology and risk factors for recurrent Staphylococcus aureus colonization following active surveillance and decolonization in the NICU. 
  • Epidemiology of Surgical Site Infection in a Community Hospital Network. 
  • Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia in community hospitals. 
  • Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical presentation of gram-negative sepsis. 
  • Estimated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Decolonization in Intensive Care Units Associated With Single-Application Chlorhexidine Gluconate or Mupirocin. 
  • Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Led Penicillin Allergy Assessment Program and Allergy Delabeling in a Tertiary Care Hospital. 
  • Evaluation of an evidence-based, nurse-driven checklist to prevent hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections in intensive care units. 
  • Evaluation of dilute hydrogen peroxide technology for continuous room decontamination of multidrug-resistant organisms. 
  • Evidence and Recommendations on the Use of Telemedicine for the Management of Arterial Hypertension: An International Expert Position Paper. 
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Hemodynamic Support. 
  • Fault Tree Analysis. 
  • Favorable impact of an infection control network on nosocomial infection rates in community hospitals. 
  • Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis reduces febrile neutropenia, bloodstream infections from mucosal translocations, and intensive care admissions in high risk hematological patients, a single center experience. 
  • Future challenges and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia with emphasis on MRSA. 
  • GI endoscope reprocessing: a comparative review of organizational guidelines and guide for endoscopy units and regulatory agencies. 
  • Genomic Analysis of a Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Implications on Transmission. 
  • Global initiative for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia (GLIMP): an international, observational cohort study. 
  • Guidance on public reporting of healthcare-associated infections: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. 
  • Hand hygiene noncompliance and the cost of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. 
  • Health care--associated bloodstream infections in adults: a reason to change the accepted definition of community-acquired infections. 
  • Health care--associated bloodstream infections. 
  • Health care-associated infection (HAI): a critical appraisal of the emerging threat-proceedings of the HAI Summit. 
  • Health care-associated native valve endocarditis: importance of non-nosocomial acquisition. 
  • Healthcare associated diarrhea, not Clostridioides difficile. 
  • Hospital Readmissions in Patients With Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. 
  • Hospital epidemiologists' and infection preventionists' opinions regarding hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia as a potential healthcare-associated infection metric. 
  • Hospital infection control, seat belts and the national debt. 
  • Hospital variation in postoperative infection and outcome after congenital heart surgery. 
  • Hospital-Onset MRSA Bacteremia Rates Are Significantly Correlated With Sociodemographic Factors: A Step Toward Risk Adjustment. 
  • Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections: estimating all-cause mortality and length of stay. 
  • Hypocaloric compared with eucaloric nutritional support and its effect on infection rates in a surgical intensive care unit: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Iatrogenic gastric acid suppression and the risk of nosocomial Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • Identification of clinical strains of Candida albicans by DNA fingerprinting with the polymerase chain reaction. 
  • Impact of Changes to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Rates in Intensive Care Units at an Academic Medical Center. 
  • Impact of FDA black box warning on fluoroquinolone and alternative antibiotic use in southeastern US hospitals. 
  • Impact of air filtration on nosocomial Aspergillus infections. Unique risk of bone marrow transplant recipients. 
  • Impact of change to molecular testing for Clostridium difficile infection on healthcare facility-associated incidence rates. 
  • Implant healing in experimental animal models of diabetes. 
  • Implementation Lessons Learned From the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room (BETR) Disinfection Study: Process and Perceptions of Enhanced Disinfection with Ultraviolet Disinfection Devices. 
  • Implementation Strategies to Improve Evidence-Based Bathing Practices in a Neuro ICU. 
  • Implementation of a Sustainable Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention Protocol in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Managua, Nicaragua. 
  • Implementation of antibiotic rotation protocol improves antibiotic susceptibility profile in a surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Implementation of strategies to prevent and control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Implementing a Daily Maintenance Care Bundle to Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Oncology Patients. 
  • Importance of vertebrate viruses for choosing hand antiseptics with virucidal efficacy. 
  • Improving infection control practices of nurse anesthetists in the anesthesia workspace. 
  • In pursuit of the holy grail: Improving C. difficile testing appropriateness with iterative electronic health record clinical decision support and targeted test restriction. 
  • Inappropriate Clostridium difficile Testing and Consequent Overtreatment and Inaccurate Publicly Reported Metrics. 
  • Incidence of and risk factors for community-associated Clostridium difficile infection: a nested case-control study. 
  • Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Patients Who Develop Mucosal Barrier Injury-Laboratory Confirmed Bloodstream Infections in the First 100 Days After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant. 
  • Incidence, risk factors, and outcome of Clostridioides difficile infection following urological surgeries. 
  • Increased Costs Associated with Bloodstream Infections Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria Are Due Primarily to Patients with Hospital-Acquired Infections. 
  • Increasing Incidence of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli in Community Hospitals throughout the Southeastern United States. 
  • Infection Prevention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Infection control in the Russian Federation: review of a tertiary care hospital. 
  • Infection control: past, present, and future issues. 
  • Infection in organ-transplant recipients. 
  • Infections caused by multidrug resistant organisms are not associated with overall, all-cause mortality in the surgical intensive care unit: the 20,000 foot view. 
  • Infectious complications following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: an automated surveillance system for detecting postprocedure bacteremia. 
  • Infectious complications. 
  • Infectious diarrhea in developed and developing countries. 
  • Infective endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus: 59 prospectively identified cases with follow-up. 
  • Inside-out: the changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • International Society of Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection Following Cardiac Surgery with Cardiopulmonary Bypass. 
  • Intraoperative Versus Extended Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Liver Transplant Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial. 
  • Introduction to "A Compendium of Strategies To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 updates". 
  • Karyotyping of Cryptococcus neoformans as an epidemiological tool. 
  • Long-term results of a postoperative pneumonia prevention program for the inpatient surgical ward. 
  • Management of pneumonia in the nursing home. 
  • Medical transport-associated infection: Review and commentary making a case for its legitimacy. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection surveillance: National Healthcare Safety Network's laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection surveillance. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals: time for a culture change. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus outbreak in an intensive care nursery: potential for interinstitutional spread. 
  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an overview of basic and clinical research. 
  • Microbial colonization of electrocardiographic telemetry systems before and after cleaning. 
  • Microbiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia compared with that of hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Minimizing hair dispersal: Is this an opportunity for improvement in health care-acquired infection prevention? 
  • Mortality and time to extubation in severe hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Multi-faceted strategies improve collection compliance and sample acceptance rate for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) active surveillance testing. 
  • Multicenter evaluation of the bovine mesenteric vein bioprostheses for hemodialysis access in patients with an earlier failed prosthetic graft. 
  • Multicenter retrospective development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for nosocomial invasive candidiasis in the intensive care setting. 
  • Multidisciplinary Approach to Clostridium difficile Infection in Adult Surgical Patients. 
  • Multiple nosocomial infections. An incidence study. 
  • Multistate Outbreak of an Emerging Burkholderia cepacia Complex Strain Associated With Contaminated Oral Liquid Docusate Sodium. 
  • Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing. 
  • Natural ventilation for the prevention of airborne contagion. 
  • Non-A, non-B hepatitis and chronic dialysis--another dilemma. 
  • Non-HACEK gram-negative bacillus endocarditis. 
  • Nosocomial hepatitis A infection in a paediatric intensive care unit. 
  • Nosocomial infection in the NICU: a medical complication or unavoidable problem? 
  • Nosocomial infection rate as a function of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 status in hemophiliacs. 
  • Nosocomial infections in the elderly. Increased risk per hospital day. 
  • Nosocomial infections within the first month of solid organ transplantation. 
  • Nosocomial influenza A (H1N1) infection. 
  • Nosocomial methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus primary bacteremia: at what costs? 
  • Nurse staffing and adverse events in hospitalized children. 
  • Observing and improving hand hygiene compliance: implementation and refinement of an electronic-assisted direct-observer hand hygiene audit program. 
  • On contact precautions: the good, the bad, and the ugly. 
  • Outbreak of Invasive Wound Mucormycosis in a Burn Unit Due to Multiple Strains of Mucor circinelloides f. circinelloides Resolved by Whole-Genome Sequencing. 
  • Outbreak of neonatal Klebsiella septicaemia at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria. Appraisal of predisposing factors and preventive measures. 
  • Overview of first-line amikacin therapy for urologic infections. 
  • PROPHETIC: Prospective Identification of Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients in the ICU. 
  • Paediatric bacterial meningitis in the USA: outcomes and healthcare resource utilization of nosocomial versus community-acquired infection. 
  • Part II. Analysis of data gaps pertaining to Shigella infections in low and medium human development index countries, 1984-2005. 
  • Patient-days: a better measure of incidence of occupational bloodborne exposures. 
  • Patient-level interventions to prevent the acquisition of resistant gram-negative bacteria in critically ill patients: a systematic review. 
  • Pediatric HIV infection in Elista, Russia: interventional strategies. 
  • Pediatric research priorities in healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial stewardship. 
  • Performance of statistical process control methods for regional surgical site infection surveillance: a 10-year multicentre pilot study. 
  • Perioperative methylprednisolone and outcome in neonates undergoing heart surgery. 
  • Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Ceftobiprole in Pediatric Patients. 
  • Policies and practices of SHEA Research Network hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Poor functional status as a risk factor for surgical site infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Postconception age and other risk factors associated with mortality following Gram-negative rod bacteremia. 
  • Postoperative surgical site infections in patients undergoing spinal tumor surgery: incidence and risk factors. 
  • Potential Cost-effectiveness of Early Identification of Hospital-acquired Infection in Critically Ill Patients. 
  • Predictors of mortality in patients with bloodstream infection due to ceftazidime-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. 
  • Predictors of nosocomial bloodstream infections in older adults. 
  • Presence of genes encoding panton-valentine leukocidin is not the primary determinant of outcome in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of C. difficile infections in hospitalized patients with major surgical procedures in the USA: Analysis using traditional and machine learning methods. 
  • Prevention and treatment of nosocomial sepsis in the NICU. 
  • Prevention of Complications in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Prevention of surgical-site infections. 
  • Probiotic and synbiotic therapy in critical illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Program Evaluation of Implementation Science Outcomes From an Intervention to Improve Compliance With Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Proposed checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection. 
  • Pyrogenic reactions in hemodialysis patients, Hanoi, Vietnam. 
  • Recommendations for surveillance of Clostridium difficile-associated disease. 
  • Red eye after strabismus surgery: community-acquired MRSA periocular infection. 
  • Reducing central line-associated bloodstream infections in North Carolina NICUs. 
  • Reducing central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections in children with cancer. 
  • Reinforcement of an infection control bundle targeting prevention practices for Clostridioides difficile in Veterans Health Administration nursing homes. 
  • Rejection criteria for endotracheal aspirates from adults. 
  • Relationship of neonatal treatments with the development of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. 
  • Relationship of vitamin D deficiency to clinical outcomes in critically ill patients. 
  • Relative frequency of nosocomial pathogens at a university hospital during the decade 1980 to 1989. 
  • Relative risks of ventriculostomy infection and morbidity. 
  • Research Methods in Healthcare Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Stewardship-Mathematical Modeling. 
  • Resistant enterococci: a prospective study of prevalence, incidence, and factors associated with colonization in a university hospital. 
  • Respiratory syncytial virus outbreak in a long-term care facility detected using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction: an argument for real-time detection methods. 
  • Restoring the Microbiome in Critically Ill Patients: Are Probiotics Our True Friends When We Are Seriously Ill? 
  • Results of the CHlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing implementation intervention to improve evidence-based nursing practices for prevention of central line associated bloodstream infections Study (CHanGing BathS): a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial. 
  • Rhythmic bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics at a large hospital. 
  • Rising rates of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in community hospitals: a mixed-methods review of epidemiology and microbiology practices in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States. 
  • Risk factors for Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteremia among intensive care unit patients without cystic fibrosis: a case-control study. 
  • Risk factors for necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants: how race, gender, and health status contribute. 
  • Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia in the elderly. 
  • Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia: comparing adult critical-care populations. 
  • Risk of sharp device-related blood and body fluid exposure in operating rooms. 
  • Role of the environment in the transmission of Clostridium difficile in health care facilities. 
  • Role of the microbiome, probiotics, and 'dysbiosis therapy' in critical illness. 
  • SHEA neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) white paper series: Practical approaches to Staphylococcus aureus disease prevention. 
  • Safety culture and hand hygiene: linking attitudes to behavior. 
  • Saving neonatal lives by improving infection prevention in low-resource units: tools are needed. 
  • Selective use of intranasal mupirocin and chlorhexidine bathing and the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection among intensive care unit patients. 
  • Self-Reported versus observed audit: Measuring CHG bathing compliance. 
  • Separation of clean and dirty: design considerations. 
  • Serious infections among unselected patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with contemporary primary percutaneous coronary intervention. 
  • Serological evidence of cross infection in a dialysis unit hepatitis-B epidemic. 
  • Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Frontline Health Care Personnel in a Multistate Hospital Network - 13 Academic Medical Centers, April-June 2020. 
  • Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) surface contamination in staff common areas and impact on healthcare worker infection: Prospective surveillance during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. 
  • Severe surgical site infection in community hospitals: epidemiology, key procedures, and the changing prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Shedding light on new methods to improve hospital cleanliness: the use of ultraviolet monitors as surrogate markers for bacterial contamination. 
  • Shifting focus toward healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: The need for neonatal intensive care unit-specific NHSN definitions. 
  • Shifting surgical site infection denominators and implications for National Health Safety Network reporting. 
  • Short Operative Duration and Surgical Site Infection Risk in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Procedures. 
  • Short-course therapy for catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Sleep safe in clean hands: Improving hand hygiene compliance in the operating room through education and increased access to hand hygiene products. 
  • Slime production, adherence and hydrophobicity in coagulase-negative staphylococci causing peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis. 
  • Staphylococcal surgical site infections. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in a tropical setting: patient outcome and impact of antibiotic resistance. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after median sternotomy: clinical utility of blood culture results in the identification of postoperative mediastinitis. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia among patients with health care-associated fever. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia at 5 US academic medical centers, 2008-2011: significant geographic variation in community-onset infections. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in patients with prosthetic devices: costs and outcomes. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: a pooled analysis of five prospective, observational studies. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: The Grady Memorial Hospital Experience. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis: a consequence of medical progress. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus infections: epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and management. 
  • Statewide costs of health care-associated infections: estimates for acute care hospitals in North Carolina. 
  • Status of the Prevention of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in International Settings: A Survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network. 
  • Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. 
  • Strategies to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals. 
  • Surgical Site Infections. 
  • Surgical Site Infections: An Update. 
  • Surgical site infection in the elderly population. 
  • Surgical site infection rates: open versus hand-assisted colorectal resections. 
  • Surgical site infections. 
  • Surgical-site infection due to Staphylococcus aureus among elderly patients: mortality, duration of hospitalization, and cost. 
  • Surveying the surveillance: surgical site infections excluded by the January 2013 updated surveillance definitions. 
  • Sustained Reduction in Bloodstream Infections in Infants at a Large Tertiary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Sustained reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections using multi-faceted strategies led by champions: A quality improvement initiative. 
  • Teamwork in the NICU Setting and Its Association with Health Care-Associated Infections in Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants. 
  • Telavancin for hospital-acquired pneumonia: clinical response and 28-day survival. 
  • Telavancin for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia: findings from the ATTAIN studies. 
  • Telavancin for the treatment of serious gram-positive infections, including hospital acquired pneumonia. 
  • Telavancin hospital-acquired pneumonia trials: impact of Gram-negative infections and inadequate Gram-negative coverage on clinical efficacy and all-cause mortality. 
  • Telavancin versus vancomycin for bacteraemic hospital-acquired pneumonia. 
  • Telavancin versus vancomycin for hospital-acquired pneumonia due to gram-positive pathogens. 
  • The Antimicrobial Scrub Contamination and Transmission (ASCOT) Trial: A Three-Arm, Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial With Crossover Design to Determine the Efficacy of Antimicrobial-Impregnated Scrubs in Preventing Healthcare Provider Contamination. 
  • The Disproportionate Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic on Healthcare-Associated Infections in Community Hospitals: Need for Expanding the Infectious Disease Workforce. 
  • The Effect of Adding Comorbidities to Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Risk-Adjustment Methodology. 
  • The Impact of 2015 NHSN Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Definition Change on Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates and CLABSI Prevention Efforts at an Academic Medical Center. 
  • The Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • The association of third-generation cephalosporin use and invasive candidiasis in extremely low birth-weight infants. 
  • The changing pattern of bacterial sepsis since the introduction of antibiotic therapy. 
  • The clinical and molecular epidemiology of community- and healthcare-acquired rotavirus gastroenteritis. 
  • The clinical significance of positive blood cultures: a comprehensive analysis of 500 episodes of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. I. Laboratory and epidemiologic observations. 
  • The clinical significance of positive blood cultures: a comprehensive analysis of 500 episodes of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. II. Clinical observations, with special reference to factors influencing prognosis. 
  • The deadly toll of invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in community hospitals. 
  • The economic costs to United States hospitals of invasive fungal infections in transplant patients. 
  • The epidemiology of chronic critical illness in the United States*. 
  • The evolution of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI): Is it time for more inclusive metrics? 
  • The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research. 
  • The great imitator: Rocky Mountain spotted fever occurring after hospitalization for unrelated illnesses. 
  • The growing importance of non-device-associated healthcare-associated infections: a relative proportion and incidence study at an academic medical center, 2008-2012. 
  • The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response on hospital infection prevention programs and practices in the southeastern United States. 
  • The impact of culture isolation of Aspergillus species: a hospital-based survey of aspergillosis. 
  • The impact of depth of infection and postdischarge surveillance on rate of surgical-site infections in a network of community hospitals. 
  • The impact of surgical-site infections following orthopedic surgery at a community hospital and a university hospital: adverse quality of life, excess length of stay, and extra cost. 
  • The impact of surgical-site infections in the 1990s: attributable mortality, excess length of hospitalization, and extra costs. 
  • The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network. 
  • The new fungal opportunists are coming. 
  • The role of medical equipment in the spread of nosocomial infections: a cross-sectional study in four tertiary public health facilities in Uganda. 
  • The role of the surface environment in healthcare-associated infections. 
  • The spectrum of infection-related morbidity in hospitalized haemodialysis patients. 
  • The use of amphotericin B in nosocomial fungal infection. 
  • The use of genome sequencing to investigate an outbreak of hospital-acquired mucormycosis in transplant patients. 
  • The utility of acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II scores for prediction of mortality among intensive care unit (ICU) and non-ICU patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • To Be a CLABSI or Not to Be a CLABSI-That is the Question: The Epidemiology of BSI in a Large ECMO Population. 
  • Tracheostomy for COVID-19 Respiratory Failure: Multidisciplinary, Multicenter Data on Timing, Technique, and Outcomes. 
  • Treatment and prophylaxis of invasive candidiasis. 
  • Treatment approaches for infected hemodialysis vascular catheters. 
  • Triage considerations for patients referred for structural heart disease intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic: An ACC/SCAI position statement. 
  • Two-Phase Hospital-Associated Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus: Investigation and Mitigation. 
  • Underresourced hospital infection control and prevention programs: penny wise, pound foolish? 
  • Universal glove and gown use and acquisition of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the ICU: a randomized trial. 
  • Unrecognised Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia among hospital inpatients in less developed countries. 
  • Unrecognised Mycobacterium tuberculosis. 
  • Updated compendium offers strategies to prevent health care-associated infections. 
  • Urinary tract infections in meningioma patients: analysis of risk factors and outcomes. 
  • Use of Contact Networks to Estimate Potential Pathogen Risk Exposure in Hospitals. 
  • Use of Population Pharmacokinetics and Electronic Health Records to Assess Piperacillin-Tazobactam Safety in Infants. 
  • Use of Statistical Process Control Methods for Early Detection of Healthcare Facility-Associated Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Outbreaks: A Single-Center Pilot Study. 
  • Use of a simple criteria set for guiding echocardiography in nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Use of optimised dual statistical process control charts for early detection of surgical site infection outbreaks. 
  • Use of triple-lumen subclavian catheters for administration of total parenteral nutrition. 
  • Using statistical process control charts to measure changes from a nurse-driven protocol to remove urinary catheters. 
  • Validating a 3-point prediction rule for surgical site infection after coronary artery bypass surgery. 
  • Vancomycin-resistant enterococci: risk related to the use of intravenous vancomycin in a university hospital. 
  • Variability in determining sepsis time zero and bundle compliance rates for the centers for medicare and medicaid services SEP-1 measure. 
  • Variability in oral antibiotic step-down therapy in the management of Gram-negative bloodstream infections. 
  • Variation in the type and frequency of postoperative invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections according to type of surgical procedure. 
  • Ventilator Bundle Compliance and Risk of Ventilator-Associated Events. 
  • Vertical transmission of Citrobacter diversus from mother to infant. 
  • Water as a source for colonization and infection with multidrug-resistant pathogens: Focus on sinks. 
  • When should contact precautions and active surveillance be used to manage patients with multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae? 
  • When to suspect fungal infection in neonates: A clinical comparison of Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis fungemia with coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia. 
  • Which Comorbid Conditions Should We Be Analyzing as Risk Factors for Healthcare-Associated Infections? 
  • Whither infection control in community hospitals? Musings about the near future. 
  • [Analysis of incidence patterns and bacterial sensitivity in a surgical unit using microcomputers]. 
  • [Standardization of antimicrobial procedures using computers]. 
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